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TweetBut don’t tell that to Condi. It’s amazing how we’ve thrown Israel under the bus because of some politically driven intelligence estimate which makes the whole world believe that Iran actually did stop developing nukes. Israel (excluding Olmert) gets it. They understand the threat, and may have to go it alone in stopping Iran.
Yahoo News – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, in an interview published Saturday, that Iran is “quite advanced” in its work on atomic weapons and may already be fashioning a nuclear warhead.
“We suspect they are probably already working on warheads for ground-to-ground missiles,” Barak said in an interview with The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine.
He also suggested that Iranians “probably … have another clandestine enrichment operation beyond the one in Natanz.”
The remarks were in stark contrast the conclusion of a US National Intelligence Estimate released late last year that said Tehran had abandoned its quest for nuclear weapons as far back as 2003.
Barak sharply disagreed with this assessment.
“Our interpretation is that clearly the Iranians are aiming at nuclear capability,” he said. “It’s probably true that … they may have slowed down the weapons group in 2003, because it was the height of American militarism.”
But he said Israel now believed that Iranians “are quite advanced, much beyond the level of the Manhattan Project.”
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